Coin-controlled photograph-vending apparatus.



No. 647,l85. Patented Apr. I0, 1900. L. W. KING. OOIN CONTROLLED PHOTOGRAPH VENDING APPARATUS.

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No. 647,185. Patented Apr. 10,1900.

L. W. KING.

COIN CONTROLLED PHOTOGRAPH VENDING API ARATUS.

(Application filed Oct. 19, 1698.)

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COIN-CONTROLLED PHOTOGRAPH-VENDING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 647,185, dated April 10, 1900.

Application filed October 19, 1898. Serial No. 693,999. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LAWRENCE W. KING, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, (Brooklyn) in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Coin-Controlled Photograph-Ven ding Apparatus,of which the following is a specification.

The object of myinvention is to provide a novel and simple arrangement and construction of mechanism for use particularly in vending photographic views confined in a case subject to delivery one at a time by the purchaser upon inserting into the mechanism for each delivery a coin of proper denomination commensurate with the purchase price of a photograph, and the particular matter of myimprovement will be pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows my improved apparatus by a top plan view. Fig. 2 is a section taken at the line 2 2 on Fig. 3 and viewed in the direction of the arrows or at the line 2 on Fig. 4 and viewed in the direction of the arrow; Fig. 3, a section taken at the line 3 on Fig. 4 and viewed in the direction of the arrow; Fig. 4, a section taken at the line 4 on Fig. 3 and viewed in the direction of the arrow; Fig. 5, a section taken at the line 5 on Fig. 3 and viewed in the direction of the arrow; Fig. 6, a section taken at the line 6 on Fig. 3 and viewed in the direction of the arrow; Fig. 7, a section taken at the line 7 on Fig. 4: and viewed in the direction of the arrow, and Fig. 8 a view in end elevation of the follower detail.

A is the box or case, of wood or other suitable material, shown as of general rectangular shape and provided with a hinged cover A, containing a coin insertion slot 0 and adapted to be locked when closed. In the cover may be provided a glass-covered chamber (indicated at B in Fig. 1) for containing an exhibit-photograph. On the inner base of the case A is confined a carriage 0, shown as a generally-rectangular flat frame 19, preferably of metal and of the construction most clearly shown in Fig. 6, with a stem or handle 19 extending centrally from its front end out through and beyond an elongated photograph-delivery opening 6 in the front end of the case, near its base. The carriage is controlled bya spring q, connecting the frame 19 movable between lateral guides at the bottom of the case and has the extent of its movement limited by back stops 0 0 and front stops 0 o. On the longitudinal bars 19 of the frame, at a distance back from the front of the case corresponding more or less approximately with the length of a, photograph D, are provided shoulders a, formed by offsets in the bars, and rising from one side of the frame is a vertical coin-stop bar m.

The interior of the case A is divided by a transverse partition E, let into it, into a photograph-holdin g compartment E and a coincompartment E the partition containing near one side a vertical slot m to admit and permit movement of the stop-bar m on the frame 19. On the base of the compartment E is a false bottom E for covering the spring q and so much of the carriage O as enters that compartment, and containing a slot m coincident with the stop-bar m, to permit free movement of the latter. The false bottom rests on the carriage-guide ledges at the sides of the chamber E and is thus supported out of contact with the carriage-frame to avoid hampering its movement.

At one side of the compartment E is pro vided a block E serving a mere filling purpose for narrowing the wid th of the compartment to about that of the photographs to be vended and containing in its inner end a recess m coincident with the stop-bar m, to permit the forward movement of the latter with the carriage.

On the back of the partition E is supported in inclined position a coin-chute F, coinciding at its upper end with the coin-insertion slot 4' and open at its lower end to discharge the coin therefrom into the compartment E Below the plane of the chute is fulorumed, between its ends on the back of the partition,

a lever F, carrying at one extremity, directly partition E a lever G, bent toward its upper end to form a stop 6 to be extended over the mouth or inlet end of the chute, and bent toward its lower end to form a cam-lip h to project forward into the compartment E through a slot g in the partition.

The package of photographs D to be vended is imposed on the carriage O in the compartment E, with the rear edge of the lowermost abutting against the shoulders n on the carriage-frame p, and on the package of photographs there rests a follower H, shown as a plate having a finger h, projecting horizontally from one corner into a vertical groove f, extending along the front face of the partition E, near the edge thereof, and into which the slot g opens. The lever G'lS so poised as to cause the stop '5 at its upper end normally to clear the inlet end of the coin-chute and to protrude the cam-lip it through the slot 9 into the path of the follower-finger h.

The operation is as follows: On inserting into the slot 9' a coin I it rolls down the inclined chute F and discharges into the holder Z. The weight of the coin overcomes the superior weight of the lever F at the opposite side of its fulcrum and tilts it, as far aspermitted by a stop (2, to the position in which it is shown in Fig. 5, wherein the coin is prevented from dropping out of the holder by the protruding portion of the stop-bar m in its path. In this tilted position of the lever the stop-finger k is raised out of the path of the carriage-frame 19, thereby permitting the carriage C to be drawn out against the resistance of the spring g by pulling the handlep. Thus pulling the carriage out carries along with it the lowermost photograph of the package thereof, owing to engagement with it of the shoulders n, and when the carriage has been pulled out as far as it will go enough of the forward edge of the lowermost photogragh is caused thereby to protrude through the delivery-opening t to permit the operator to catch hold of it and withdraw and thereby deliver it fully. The withdrawal of the carriage moves the stop-bar on out of the path of the coin, which thereupon drops into the compartment E relieving of its weight the lever 1 This lever cannot then, however, right itself into its normal position, for the expanded part c, Fig. 6, of a side bar of the carriage-frame is belowand obstructs the descent of the stop-finger but when the operator releases the carriage the spring (1 returns it to its normal position, in which the part i; of

' the frame has cleared the stop-finger,enablin g it to drop and afford a stop in front of the expanded part U, and thereby permitting the lever F to right itself into normal position, ready to be again actuated by inserting a coin. In the retracted position of the carriage the offsets n clear the then lowermost photograph of the package and are in position to engage its inner edge to protrude that photograph, as described, when the carriage is again withdrawn. The follower H lowers as the supply of photographs upon which it rests becomes depleted from underneath. When the last photograph of the package has been delivered, the finger h on the follower bears against the cam-lip h of the lever G, thereby forcing it backward and forcing the stop t' at the upper end of the lever forward to extend over the inlet end of the coin-chute and remain there, until a fresh supply of photographs is introduced into the compartment E, to prevent a coin being inserted into the apparatus with no return to the would-be purchaser.

Although I have especially devised my improved apparatus for vending photographs, it is equally useful for vending other cardshaped articles adapted for delivery in the manner described of the photographs, and I intend its use for such other purposes to be included as within my invention.

It will be noted that the arrangement of the coacting elements on each side of the partition is important and advantageous in affording provision for convenient location of the follower as a means of controllingthe opening and closing of the coin-chute and as a means for mounting all the coin-controlled parts on one wall of the partition for conjoint operation with the frame-carriage, which is slidable beneath the partition. Another feature of the partition is that it allows the coin receiving and delivering lever to operate at right angles to the movements of the framecarriage,which renders the arrangement compact. In the movement of the frame beneath the partition the vertical arm on is caused to move from one side of the partition to the other, and thereby to carry the arm directly in front of and away from the coin, and this function of the arm is due to the location of the partition and the location and arrangement thereon of the coacting parts. The cari rying-frame in its provision of the surface i stops it n, the vertical arm m, and the shelf part 2; is a new device in its coacting relation to the partition and to the lever for effecting the functions of these parts.

Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- V In a coin-controlled photograph-vending apparatus having on one side of a partition a compartment for containing photographs and on the other side of said partition a compartment for containing the coin-controlled devices consisting of a coin-chute, and a transverse lever having means for holding the coin, located on one wall of the partition, in combination with a photograph-carrying frame having an arm m arranged to move behind the delivering end of the chute to cover and to uncover it, and means for moving said carrying-frame to cause its arm to pass from one side of the partition to the other for the purpose stated.

LAWRENCE W. KING. In presence of- B. GoREY, L. Often.

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